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events, in -home dinners, catering events, StoryChanger Coffee Club, storyteller Catering, and our <br />online store. We create avenues for conversations that create change, collaboration, and unique <br />forms of fundraising, ali to decrease demand and provide new opportunities for survivors and <br />the vulnerable among us. <br />As with any market, without demand there would be no supply. Our oversexualized, materialistic <br />culture that uses sex to sell and promotes fast fashion hascreated an environment that is a <br />breeding ground for demand, both for sex and labor trafficking. <br />PROBLEM OPPORTUNITY <br />Human trafficking exists as we know it today because our society has ignored the root causes <br />(materialism, pornography, objectification, and oversexualization) which has contributed to this <br />climate that breeds the exploitation of human beings for financial gain. <br />Human trafficking is a cultural issue and therefore is going to take each and every one of us to <br />make changes in the conversations we have, the things we ignore, and the products we buy. <br />This issue is solvable if individuals come together and choose to make these changes. At <br />Stories Foundation we believe that every person has a story and every story has value; each of <br />us has the ability and power to be a part of ending trafficking and exploitation. <br />There are individuals, government officials, agencies, and groups, along with nonprofit and <br />religious organizations, who are spreading awareness about human trafficking. The <br />conversation has started and awareness is spreading about the facts surrounding the issue. <br />Money is being raised for restoration homes, and laws are changing so that those who have <br />been exploited are taken care of instead of being further abused by the legal system. Prevention <br />efforts are materialising. Headway is being made, yet there is still more to do. The statistics are <br />growing, instead of decreasing. The number of slaves has almost doubled in the last 7 years, <br />rising from 27 million in 2012 to 43 million in 2019. <br />